User Guide

When the wizard asks for your name, you can enter your first name only, a nickname, or your first and last name.

The wizard asks for your age to help Dragon work with vocal differences it associates with different age ranges.

The wizard also asks for region of the world you live in to help Dragon interpret your speech based on regional differences.

3When the Help Dragon understand how your pronounce words page appears, select your accent.

The accents you can choose from are:

n Standard—Select if your accent is not covered by another choice or your are not sure which accent to select.

n Australian accented English n British accented English

n Indian accented English

n Inland Northern US (Great Lakes area)—Upstate New York through the Chicago area

n SEAsian accented English—South East Asian

n Southern US—Most of Southern United States, including Texas

n Spanish accented English

Determining your own accent can be difficult. For example, say you grew up in one part of the United States but have lived long enough in another part to lessen your original regional accent. If you have any doubt about picking an accent, select Standard and allow Dragon to learn your accent.

If you do not select a specific accent (in other words, you select the Standard accent), you may want to perform Acoustic Optimization after using the product for several hours. Acoustic Optimization updates your user profile with accumulated acoustic data from any corrections and additional training you may have done. Running Acoustic Optimization will increase your overall accuracy. In the

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